I think the main thing stopping that is that that's not what many people want. I know personally I wasn't looking to recreate Reddit, as much I am just looking for a new link aggregator and to build a new community around it.
We just need the content that's already on there to massively improve things, we don't need a computer constantly running updating the content, we really just need it over here once to match reddit, then we can replace it.
I mean, I see no problem with someone creating an instance specifically for this, it would even be good for archival purposes. But doing it here? Hell naw, I don't want r/conservative or whatever other the_donald-like hellholes Reddit still has, polluting Lemmy.
There is also the problem with "gone wild" style subs, where the users posts their own explicit pictures, but that doesn't mean they want those pictures reposted elsewhere without their control.
There is also the problem with “gone wild” style subs, where the users posts their own explicit pictures, but that doesn’t mean they want those pictures reposted elsewhere without their control.
That does unfortunately come with the territory of posting anything on the internet though, especially explicit material.
There are servers that do this. You get a whole bunch of mostly terrible content (with not votes to rise good stuff to the top) and no way to interact with the original poster or commenters. It's not great.
I'd be willing to donate money to such a project. How much storage could it really take, it's almost all text, the images are usually hyperlinks that could stay links.
that's the thing we don't know , sites like unddit used pushshift to archive reddit posts , vomments, etc, and its dead so these websites are effectively dead, so i don't think we can do it here.
the images are usually hyperlinks that could stay links.
and imgur started purging old images, where most reddit images are hosted.